Runaway Lockons

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Many thanks to composer Harrison Ingemarson for this piano reduction (which he created by ear) of Jerry Goldsmith’s “Lockons” from the all-electronic 1984 Runaway score:

This Goldsmith score is one of my weird obsessions because it came so early in the “synth revolution” that Goldsmith wrote it like an orchestral score, just performed by electronics.

So it’s not based on drones and sound design, but full of horizontal, tumbling energy. It’s kind of grating, admittedly, but unique. I think it works great in the film:

Wow, what a moment in time: Tom Selleck at peak-unstardom, Kirstie Alley a total smokeshow, captivating Michael Crichton sci-fi tech, egregious Michael Crichton human drama, enemy bad guy robots that look like they came from Sears, and all-electronic Jerry Goldsmith? Count me in!